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Blizzard loves giving more value to people who have more time. I hate everything about this, from the perspective where I am at as a gamer right now. Yes, this is a bit of a selfish rant (to be up…Read more

I often enjoy how perspectives change. This is just a self evaluation, even on this blog. Back in 2008 when I started blogging I closely followed and often agreed with Wolfshead and Tesh when it came to virtual worlds and the opportunities…Read more

Just as Ravious had suspected the countdown at Crowfall’s website lead to their Kickstarter event. Stop me if this sounds familiar – a group of MMO designer veterans, tired of the same products that they have produced over the years…Read more

My gaming laptop died. I stopped having a gaming computer many years ago and instead bought a few high powered ASUS gaming rigs. This worked well for my gaming while I traveled for work a lot and lonely nights in…Read more

[edit: made the pictures clickable to expand into a new window – forgot on the first draft, sorry!] First off, this game is a lot of fun. It completely has that “just one more adventure” feel to it since play…Read more

What is more inspiring than a ‘Powerful’ positive boon Hellion? Not much! I Hot on the heels of our victory against the Wizened Hag the troops build on being pure awesome. With new levels come new responsibilities and new challenges….Read more

My favourite weekly news source is The Economist – a UK based magazine that basically covers most of the world’s significant events in a weekly format. What is amazing about it is that it is free from most of the…Read more

With the disaster of a run last episode I decide to refocus my efforts on improving the team. Originally this was bringing in ‘fresh blood meat talent’ but i am quickly learning the path to success is investing in your…Read more

Team Blognation (aka Team Invincible – yes, I am trying to jinx us here!) is on quite the roll and I begin to start focusing on the main Quest Goals. Kill the bosses of which, I have already killed the Apprentice Necromancer….Read more

With NCSoft quarterly and full year earnings reports out the news is really, really glum for fans of WildStar. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I posted a lot about WildStar. It has decent chops. There just isn’t…Read more

Onward and upward! Riding high, I figure it is time for our team to take on some real challenges. Boss missions! Except they are gated to keep it a challenge. I can’t use my level three adventurers for an easy…Read more

Something crazy happened after Murf’s death. We hit a huge string of good luck and prosperity. Now, I am not saying that he was sacrificed, or anything absurd like that, but the crew did use it as a rallying cry….Read more

You shouldn’t have said anything Murf! Very obvious foreshadowing there. I knew this was going to be a tough run for the team with so many out of commission – but we need to push forward. There are glorious treasures…Read more

I often review old posts – it is a fun way to see what I was jabbering about back over half a decade (sounds so much longer when put that way). I was reviewing some old posts when I randomly came…Read more

[Reminder: clicking on the picture opens a new tab with an expanded view. The pictures are set to scale with the browser and I noticed on mine the text is a little small to read] Columbo style: we had a…Read more

Here is to hoping a lot more bloodshed joy and craziness treasures for our merry band of adventurers. Let’s see how BlogNation’s second foray into the Ruins turned out! [note: clicking on the graphics will open them larger in a new browser…Read more

So, buying early access to the Darkest Dungeon was due to a fun review by Aywren over at Clean Casuals. Many that I respect, such as Leo over at Leo’s Life make a very fair argument that there is danger in buying…Read more

I didn’t see this story making the rounds in BlogNation and probably due to the Massively and WoW Insider closing news – which I do want to address briefly. While said so much better by so many in our space,…Read more

In this post I continue my series of playing games after they are no longer hot, or the “in thing” for the first time – long after all of you have played it. I enjoy being fashionably late! Besides, this…Read more

Ironically, from a “Quote of the Day” article. I laughed out loud when I read this over at TAGN, from Wilhelm (the author) himself in the comments section. EVE isn’t even, objectively speaking, a very good game to play. To…Read more

Congratulations to Izlain, Asmiroth, and Joseph Skyrim for winning the indie title. Please send me an email (chris@ihaspc.com) and I’ll send along your steam keys. Plenty of time to die in the Zombie Apocalypse for the weekend! On that note,…Read more

In the movie “Freaky Friday” a mom and daughter switch bodies – effectively experiencing each other’s lives directly. This time warp is a neat backdrop for a story and a movie, and I am introducing a theme post here to reflect…Read more